1476. hedraios
Lexicon
hedraios: steadfast, firm, immovable

Original Word: ἑδραῖος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hedraios
Pronunciation: heh-DRAH-yos
Phonetic Spelling: (hed-rah'-yos)
KJV: settled, stedfast
NASB: steadfast, firm
Word Origin: [from a derivative of hezomai "to sit"]

1. sedentary (characterized by sitting much or long)
2. (by implication) immovable, steadfast

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
settled, steadfast.

From a derivative of hezomai (to sit); sedentary, i.e. (by implication) immovable -- settled, stedfast.

HELPS Word-studies

1476 hedraíos (an adjective, derived from aphedrōn, "a seat or base") – properly, sit (solidly-based, well-seated); (figuratlively) steadfast (firm), morally fixed; firm in purpose (mind); "well-stationed" (securely positioned), not given to fluctuation or "moving off course."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from hedra (a seat)
Definition
sitting, steadfast
NASB Translation
firm (1), steadfast (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1476: ἑδραῖος

ἑδραῖος (rarely feminine ἑδραια (Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1)), ἑδραιον (ἕδρα, seat, chair);

1. sitting, sedentary, (Xenophon, Plato, others).

2. firm, immovable, steadfast, (Euripides, Plato, others); in the N. T. metaphorically, of those who are fixed in purpose: 1 Corinthians 15:58; Colossians 1:23; ἕστηκεν ἐν τῇ καρδία, 1 Corinthians 7:37.

Forms and Transliterations
εδραιοι εδραίοι ἑδραῖοι εδραιος εδραίος ἑδραῖος edraioi edraios hedraioi hedraîoi hedraios hedraîos
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Corinthians 7:37 Adj-NMS
GRK: καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἑδραῖος μὴ ἔχων
NAS: stands firm in his heart,
KJV: that standeth stedfast in
INT: heart of him firm not having

1 Corinthians 15:58 Adj-NMP
GRK: μου ἀγαπητοί ἑδραῖοι γίνεσθε ἀμετακίνητοι
NAS: brethren, be steadfast, immovable,
KJV: be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
INT: of me beloved firm be immovable

Colossians 1:23 Adj-NMP
GRK: τεθεμελιωμένοι καὶ ἑδραῖοι καὶ μὴ
NAS: firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away
KJV: grounded and settled, and [be] not
INT: established and firm and not

Strong's Greek 1476
3 Occurrences


ἑδραῖοι — 2 Occ.
ἑδραῖος — 1 Occ.

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